Over the last 50 years, there have been many improvements in therapy for individuals with
neurologic disorders. Simultaneously, the complexity and cost of care have increased. The …

Neurologists, like most physicians and much of Ameri-can society, are struggling with the
increasing pressure to reduce escalating health care costs in ways that maintain access and …

590© Royal College of Physicians, 2011. All rights reserved.• creation of an integrated
network for neurological care distributed across the spectrum of primary, district and regional …

Clinical neurologists in the health care system of the future should have a multifaceted role.
Advances in the basic understanding of the nervous system and therapeutics of neurologic …

As we near this end of the Decade of the Brain, we can all feel proud of the enormous
neuroscientific advances and improved treatments for our patients that we, collectively, have …

This is an incredibly exciting time to be a neurologist. New understandings unfold daily; the
increasing pace of advances is unparalleled. To project the future role of neurology and …

In the movie The Graduate from the 1960s, Benja-min Braddock (played by Dustin Hoffman)
is advised to pursue a promising career in plastics. For those of us who practice neurology …

The American Medical Association Physician Masterfile for 1990 contains 13,705 physicians
who consider neurology their primary, secondary, or tertiary specialty. Of these, 7,036 are …

Perennially, senior observers discuss the forces affecting neurology and their impact (real or
imagined) on science, clinical practice, training, economics, and the people required to …

The US health care crisis is of great concern to American neurologists. The United States
has the world's most expensive health care system yet one-sixth of Americans are …